This article presents reflections based on the experience and on research conducted with peasant women currently tied to the Peasant Women Movement and also on the interaction with different groups, movements, coordinations, and collective popular health education practices in operation in all Brazilian regions. We identified the base of the context and of everyday life, of the resistance and struggle of these women peasants, their interfaces with the health and illness processes, as well as the identification of the political contributions and educational practices that emerge in the popular health care, promotion and educational practices of these social players.
work in health; education and social movements